Feminist Posthumanities in the Anthropocene: Forays into the Postnatural

Åsberg, Cecilia

Philosophy and History, KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Philosophy and History of Technology, History of Science, Technology and Environment. (The Posthumanities Hub)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7794-3806

Abstract [en]

In the new planetary age of the Anthropocene or the Age of Man (as it were),humanity is cast as a single geological force, a major force of environmentaldestruction, and one folding in on itself. The Anthropocene is famously definedby human-induced climatic, biological, and geological transformations of ourplanet, by a profound anthropogenic environmental impact and mass speciesextinctions. However, the Anthropocene risk also, as pointed out by a widerange of feminist philosophers and critical scholars, hides troublesome differencesbetween humans, and also hides intimate relationships between technology,humans, and other animals. This totalization of humanity is a parallel risk insome posthuman theorizing also, and something postdisciplinary scholars ofthe critical humanities and feminist philosophers have paid attention to fordecades. In the posthuman context of the Anthropocene, I suggest and pointto postdisciplinary humanities research and theory–practices that pay carefulattention to the feminist theoretical work on our equally postnatural conditionas an experimental remedy.